I did an hour-long walk on Sunday, tis was nice. Heel spur definitely felt it later on, but it's the first time I've walked that long in a long time. I intend to do this more regularly as weather allows.

Done 130kg four times already as part of squatting every single day in some form over the past 2 weeks. The first time, it was actually a true PR.

Monday/Thu I do back spaghetti quad tremors for nose picks, usually Thu is lighter or less volume. Every other day I ramp up to a 120kg front squarsh single as a bare minimum at home and occasionally push up to 130, then strip 10-15kg and do a few fast sets of 2-3 (only certain days). Now 130 is starting to feel less scary (I can warm up and hit 130 in under 10 minutes), so 135-140 is the next stepping stone.

My knees feel great with the increased frequency. I might even cut out the back spaghetti quad tremors if the front squarsh continues to improve on its own, as the beat me up less. Doing lots of glute ham raises too which are helping the knees stay healthy.

Never been a serious detriment to my lifting even with my profuse sweating. Keeping my mane indefinitely, short of a freak accident or a brain tumor. Fuck jobs!

Been hitting volume personal bests for the last 3 weeks, latest were 3x8 back spaghetti quad tremors with 133kg/293lbs, and 3x5 paused back spaghetti quad tremors with the same weight. This is on top of hitting 130kg+ front spaghetti quad tremors every single day with some back offs. Some 3x8 PR's in behind-the-neck strict presses and sots presses. But my body is starting to feel like shit so it's time for a deload week.

140kg/309lbs front squarsh91kg/200lbs clean for 5x386kg behind the neck push press for 3x591kg/200lbs block jerks for 5x395kg clean &jerk for 6 singles every minute82kg snatch for 6 singles every minute70kg/155lbs snatch for 5x3 - this was formerly a 1RM less than 2 years ago42.5kg snatch presses for 3x815kg kettlebell pullups for 3x8and a bunch of end-of-workout high volume back squarsh PR's, which match my pre-workout squarsh PR's. So this implies that I got stronger, as I'm usually weaker at the end and wasn't able to hit my old numbers.

I like my new programming. Insane soreness but a deload is coming next week. Going to attempt bigger C&J numbers soon.

I did a sanctioned weightlifing meet over a year ago. Numbers were shit and they still are for my weight class tho, but I'm stronger. Didn't really enjoy the prep for a meet, just stressful and not as enjoyable as training for its own sake IMO.

Felt like ass for the last 4 days and had to miss a training day and cut another short because of extreme exhaustion from poor sleep, due to stress but I'm also just about reaching my limit. Good thing I have deload week now. I took a few attempts at 90kg snatch and came close but decided to call it there because I was getting dizzy.